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Eg, " CASAHL Lotus Notes Application Analyzer 2010 (first released in 2003): The leading analysis system to provide Lotus Notes users a comprehensive understanding of their environment. Atlassian Confluence for Learning. Atlassian Confluence is good for social learning.

Socialtext , NewsGator and Atlassian ( Confluence wiki ) are examples. An over-simplified outline such as the one I fashioned together above is perhaps one that might help feed into a decision process that ties into other architectural and organizational factors.

Engineers without Fears Saturday, September 15, 2007 More collaboration James Dellow takes up the conversation about collaboration. James D makes the point that collaboration happens within organisations & that people will use any tools that come to hand. Absolutely agree with this. James goes on to say: This cycle by the way is taking place at an enterprise level, but also at the level of individual workgroups, teams and projects.

Engineers without Fears Sunday, October 14, 2007 Collaboration vs sharing James Robertson talks about collaboration tools as anti-knowledge sharing. If I understand JR correctly, his point is that collaboration tools are great for specific teams. However each team works in its own context and this leads to the creation of silos which prevents cross-organisational leveraging of this material. He also notes that this cannot be solved simply by the implementation of a search tool. I agree with him.

The deployment has to be carefully planned so that all stakeholders are informed well in advance potential problems are foreseen and catered for before they occur everything is "roll-back-able" a schedule is agreed and stuck to In other words, its all about the three -ations: Anticipation Coordination Communication Weve been using our enterprise wiki, Confluence , to keep track of things, and I have to say, its proved an invaluable tool for this situation.

Engineers without Fears Tuesday, April 15, 2008 collaboration tools: stags Ive been thinking about different collaboration tools for various groups recently and I was pondering on some of the different factors you need to consider and I came up with this (click to enlarge) : Lets take each of these in turn: Size - One thing to consider are the numbers of people who will be collaborating. Three rough groups sizes come to mind: Teams (15 approx) - small number of people.

Engineers without Fears Tuesday, September 11, 2007 Collaboration tools James Robertson has been thinking about collaboration tools. Which is interesting because I have as well. As ever, James is practical & clear in his thinking and suggests a 5 phase model (0-4) for organisations thinking about collaboration.

If we start from the point of view that we are hiring the right people and they are broadly aligned towards shared goals, then we can use people power to organise information better through social bookmarking and emergent information architecture.

Engineers without Fears Monday, January 14, 2008 freezing out on the scarpa flow Michael Idinopulos writes about in-the-flow and out-of-the flow activities and wiki beahaviour and Andrew McAfee takes his point a bit further. Andrew asks: How outlandish would it be for a company to put participation in emergent social software platforms in the flow for at least some employees?

To open the proverbial “black box and begin to reveal the internal wiring of the firm, this paper presents a detailed, descriptive analysis of the network of communications among members of a large, structurally, functionally, geographically, and strategically diverse firm (hereafter, “BigCo ). It s about information architecture and all related topics such as document, information, knowledge, project and change management.